These are claims recorded in confessions, not events. Wikipedia gives the flight to the coronation as one of the accusations Helen Guthrie made, and the ship-sinking claim sits in the same confession. Their value today is as evidence of what the Forfar interrogators were told or wished to hear, and of the common Scottish idea that witches could harm shipping.
No one is recorded as having seen any flight. The record is a documented confession, and the confidence tag here refers to the document, not the claim.
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